If you need to expand the e-learning content that you sell to your customers, you can do so by becoming our RESELLER PARTNER.

This is suitable for any/all training companies, LMS providers, e-learning vendors, and e-learning publishers who wish to extend their provision.

We offer a straightforward reseller agreement which will enable you to sell content in bulk to businesses or “on demand” to individuals (depending on your focus). You can offer content from across our library of 2000+ courses, enabling you to substantially (or selectively!) grow your e-learning offer.

We’ve learned (through many years of providing content to partners) that one size does not fit all. We have developed a series of flexible packages that enable organisations to acquire/resell e-learning content to their customers – without the time, hassle and expense of negotiating separately with lots of different publishers.

The general principle, whether you are supplying content to businesses (in bulk) or whether you have a transactional service such as a B2C ecommerce website, is that you can

• Buy content on demand (to mirror the needs of your customers)
• Get a blanket discount on everything you buy (so you can usually mark up by at least 50%)

In return for access to 2000 or so courses, reseller discounts across the board, and technical and sales support (that we provide) a modest level of commitment is required on your part.  To this end, we offer the choice of (either) a small annual subscription (for access to the service) or you can pre-purchase a certain amount of unspecified content which can be sold on to your clients over the term of the agreement.

To manage expectations, the lowest entry point for resellers is usually £1200 per year, which is may be waived for e-learning publishers (who also distribute content via our services) and key strategic partners. Please get in touch and we’ll talk you through the options and find the best way of working together.

In terms of “how you would make money” – that is usually from making sales and leveraging your reseller discount. However some partners have success by bundling e-learning content with other services, or using additional content as the hook to attract and retain customers.

Yes! If your LMS is SCORM 1.2 compliant then it can be used to access any of our courses. You simply load our zipped SCORM connectors (also known as ‘stubs’ or ‘header files’) to your platform. Our system then runs in the background (invisible to your learners) and controls the overall number licenses. The enrolments, usage tracking and certificates would operate on your platform as usual.

Of course we can  provide connectors for testing on your system, so you can ensure that everything runs smoothly.

Short answer: Yes we are GDPR compliant.

Long answer: Where you add our courses to your LMS (using SCORM connectors), it is a form of system integration – albeit a light one – and data is necessarily shared between platforms (to track usage and provision the content to the end user).

We are fully GDPR compliant in our approach, and will work with you (as a “data processor”) to ensure that GDPR requirements are met (considering that different systems will have different defaults and parameters relating to the exact data that is transferred back and forth). Our use of any personal data received via SCORM Connectors or API is exclusively for the purpose of providing our service to you, and data is managed in-line with our Privacy Statement.

In terms of the data that we receive, with SCORM Connectors, your system will relay the student_ID to our platform (student_ID is usually a reference number). Depending on how your platform is configured, we may also get the learners’ names (although that isn’t mandatory in SCORM). Other personal identifiers such as email address are not relayed to us (unless your system is configured to use email as student_ID). We can evidence the data that we receive as part of any pre-purchase integration testing.

Yes…Our reseller partners can, if they wish, use our LMS to enrol and manage learners. Use of our standard LMS for the purpose of selling/delivering courses is provided free of charge and includes a level of branding.

Modest hosting costs apply if you wish to use our platform to host your own training content (unless that content is also offered for sale via our other channels).

If you wish to sell eLearning content through your website, there are a number of options:

• We can provide an e-commerce enabled LMS (this is an “all in one” solution, which includes a customer facing catalogue, shopping cart etc)
• You can add courses (using our SCORM Connectors) to your own e-commerce LMS or website.
• We have a WordPress plug-in which would allow you to embed content (including the learner log-in) within an existing ecommerce website, so that the “LMS” is invisible and the learner stays on the website throughout.
• We can supply/adapt API for a deeper integration and automatic catalogue updates.

Modest set-up charges usually apply. We’ll be very happy to discuss your requirements with you.

If you are a publisher of high quality eLearning content, you can  increase your e-learning distribution potential as our PUBLISHER PARTNER.

We will increase your product exposure by adding it to our “one stop shop” evaluation portal www.course-source.com (our website for eLearning buyers to find and buy access to online training for their businesses), introduce it to our extended network of channel partners and sub-resellers, and potentially collaborate with you on other sales and marketing initiatives.

This is all wrapped up in a straightforward PUBLISHER AGREEMENT, which also protects your IPR and underwrites the commercial arrangements. We would do the work to integrate your content onto our platform and we take full responsibility to ensure that the content is fully controlled in-line with customers’ purchases.

We work in close co-operation with publisher partners – and our aim is simple: to help to maximise the exposure and uptake of your content.

The start-up steps are usually as follows (steps can be concurrent)…

• Initial conversations (getting to know each other; company introductions, product overview, evaluate the opportunity etc).
• Content preview we’d like a demo of the content on your platform and some sample SCORM files (for testing on our server).
• Finalise pricing and contract exchange (we supply a template PUBLISHER AGREEMENT for your review).
• Content load and QA onto our platform (including SCORM files, meta data, course outlines etc).
• Agree “go-to-market” plan and success strategies.
• Go-live (products added to the Course Source marketplace, made available to channel partners, launch announcements etc).
• Routine reporting and review schedule (commercial review and product maintenance).

Of course its easier to run through it over a phone/web call, so please get in touch and we’ll get it set-up straight away!

(Drum roll)….There are NO START-UP or ONGOING COSTS for eLearning publishers wishing to sell content via Core Learning Services (though our Course Source marketplace and network of reseller partners). In that regard it its an entirely free service, and you should benefit from product and brand exposure without it costing you anything at all.

Instead of fixed costs, we work on a very fair and attractive revenue share basis (so publishers earn a royalty from sales of their content).

Recommended course pricing (the suggested pricing for end-clients) is set in consultation with each course publisher, and the royalties are based on this pricing – so it is all agreed in advance in terms of the different sales models, channels and % share. Its actually very straightforward.

If your courses are SCORM 1.2 compliant they will work on our LMS. Our preference is to host the full SCORM packages (rather than use connectors), purely because we issue onward connectors to our customers – and it tends to be better to have less “links in the chain” from a technical perspective. However we can explore with you the best way to progress the integration.

Where we are hosting your courses for you, there is also the potential for you to save money by using us as your primary hosting service (and also as a means for you to integrate your content to your customers’ LMS). Of course that is entirely up to you, but we’d be delighted to have the conversation with you about it.

Our platform/LMS is a very robust, secure and effective LICENSE CONTROL SYSTEM for managing access to eLearning content.

Our customers/resellers either access courses using our LMS (which we often provide free of charge) or they can use their LMS. With the latter, we provide SCORM connectors which enable the courses to be launched from the customer’s system. HOWEVER the overall control of the licenses (number of enrolments/users, duration and so on) remains fully controlled via our system.

Thus, if a customer/reseller buys (say) 250 course enrolments from a particular range, they would not be able to enrol 251. If they bought access for 365 days, they would not be able to access the content in day 366 (without buying again).

So when your content is sold by Core Learning Services (or one of our resellers), you can be entirely confident that access is always tightly controlled.

Our entire business is built on (and depends on) open and fair relationships with eLearning publishers.

We report any sales to publishers on a monthly basis (for license sales this would normally include the name of the client company and a summary of the purchase).

We can supply enhanced reports as may be required for audit purposes (these are currently not automated due to GDPR compliance- although we expect to resolve that shortly).

In general terms, we provide a “single point of procurement” for businesses or organisations requiring content for their LMS. Often our customers are looking for a multi-publisher solution, and we offer the convenience of one-stop-shop, and the assurance that the courses can be supported on the in-house LMS – saving the customer the time and trouble of contacting, negotiating and integrating with multiple vendors.  So we are usually servicing customers that have a wider requirement that can be serviced by “going direct”to a particular publisher.

Our customers include a wide variety of (mostly) medium sized businesses from across the industry spectrum, public sector organisations, and some larger corporations.

In addition to this, we also supply partner organisations (such as training providers, LMS companies, other eLearning vendors etc) who require content for their own customers.

Our direct provision is predominately in the UK, however our distribution partnerships currently extend to India, South Africa and the Middle East, and are extending to other territories.

Yes, absolutely. eLearning publishers can use our platform to provision their content onto their customers’ LMS. Our system sits in the background (to control exactly what has been sold/bought; number of users and so on), and you simply run off SCORM Connectors for whichever courses you want to supply to the customer.

E-learning publishers who are also reselling their courses via our distribution service can get this service at a substantial discount (and, for them, it is actually FREE for the first 500 users).